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The German government announced its intention to phase out nuclear power 20 years ago. What is the plan to phase out natural gas use?

• philipkglass 6y ago
  As far as I know there is no explicit German gas phase-out plan the way there now is for coal [1] and the way there was for nuclear reactors. I think that it was a bad idea for Germany to shut working reactors prematurely. I also think that it was unavoidable for German leadership, given how unpopular nuclear power is with German voters. 81% of polled Germans agreed with the nuclear phase-out as of 2015 [2]. There's a gas phase-out implicit in Germany's 2050 net zero target, but that's not very strong. Other EU members are also theoretically committed to net zero by 2050. I don't know if any of them have committed to earlier dates for eliminating gas specifically. [1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/spelling-out-coal-phase-out-germanys-exit-law-draft https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/spelling-out-coal... [2] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/atomausstieg/4-jahre-nach-fukushima-grosse-mehrheit-fuer-energiewende-40148648.bild.html https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...